What You Should Know:
- Artificial intelligence algorithms can predict outcomes
of COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms in emergency rooms, according to recent
research findings published in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence journal.
- Researchers trained the algorithm from data on 338
positive COVID-19 patients between the ages of 21 and 50 by using diverse
patient data from emergency departments within Mount Sinai Health System
hospitals (The Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, Mount
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Microsoft Deploys COVID-19 Vaccine Management Platform
What You Should Know:
- Microsoft launches a COVID-19 vaccine management platform with partners Accenture and Avanade, EY, and Mazik Global to help government and healthcare customers provide fair and equitable vaccine distribution, administration, and monitoring of vaccine delivery.
- Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) has deployed
over 230 emergency COVID-19 response missions globally since the pandemic began
in March, including recent engagements to ensure the equitable, secure
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LeanTaaS Secures $130M for ML Platform to Help Hospitals Achieve Operational Excellence
What You Should Know:
- LeanTaaS
raises $130 million in Series D Funding to strengthen its machine learning platform
to continue helping hospitals achieve operational excellence during a time
where they are facing mounting financial pressures due to COVID-19.
- LeanTaaS provides software solutions that combine lean
principles, predictive analytics, and machine learning to transform hospital
and infusion center operations to improve operational efficiencies, increase
access, and
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Pair Team Emerges Out of Stealth with $2.7M to Automate Primary Care Operations
What You Should Know:
- San Francisco-based digital health startup Pair Team
emerges out of stealth with $2.7M in seed funding backed by Kleiner Perkins,
Craft Ventures, & YC.
- Pair Team provides both a remote team and AI that automates workflows, provides infrastructure & improves medical practices — efficiencies and billing as you’d expect, but all driving toward value-based, quality patient care.
- Pair’s wrap-around technology tripled the rate of annual wellness visits
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COVID-19: How Hospitals Can Create Better Inpatient Bed Capacity through Math
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, key elements of hospital operations such as managing inpatient bed capacity, and access to ventilators and PPE have taken center stage. The general public got a crash course on what hospitals need in order to function successfully when disaster hits, and daily news and discussions were centered around ICU bed capacity as cases accelerated across the country.
The nightmarish predictions and reality led to the development of creative measures to
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Medical AI Startup SegMed Nabs $2M to Aggregate Medical Data for Research
What You Should Know:
- Segmed emerges out of stealth and has
secured $2M in seed funding to empower medical AI efforts through easy access
to high-quality, structured and anonymized training data sets.
- The healthcare industry is amassing data at an unprecedented rate but unless this data is standardized, labeled, and curated for use by patients and clinicians, it is not beneficial.
- Segmed simplifies the process by
enabling AI developers to achieve faster development times,
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Brigham, Biofourmis Co-Develops Tech Solution to Enable Home Hospital Care
What You Should Know:
- Brigham is working with Biofourmis on a national
rollout of their co-developed technology solution, which has been refined and
scaled for use by other healthcare systems across the country seeking to
establish and execute similar home hospital programs to alleviate COVID-related
capacity issues and to receive 1:1 parity on payments from CMS.
- The Hospital@HomeTM platform provides a turnkey,
end-to-end ecosystem for any health system that wants to quickly launch
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Olive Hits $1.5B Valuation with Additional $225.5M Funding for AI-Powered Digital Employee Platform
What You Should Know:
- AI workforce management for healthcare provider Olive lands an additional $225.5M in funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $1.5B.
- This latest funding round will enable
Olive to accelerate product development, and the company plans to announce more
capabilities in 2021 to support the entire healthcare ecosystem.
Olive,
the company creating the AI workforce for healthcare, today
announced an additional $225.5M in financing led by Tiger Global
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Proscia Secures $23M for AI-Enabled Digital Pathology Solutions
What You Should Know:
- Proscia secures $23M in Series B
funding led by Scale Venture Partners for its AI-enabled digital pathology
solutions.
- Proscia will use the funding to expand its AI application portfolio, boost commercial expansion, and advance its regulatory strategy to secure FDA approval.
Proscia, a Philadelphia-based provider of digital and
computational pathology solutions, today announced it has secured $23M in
Series B funding led by Scale
Venture
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Zebra Medical Vision to Co-Develop AI-Based Models for Osteoporosis Early Detection & Prevention
What You Should Know:
- Zebra Medical Vision, the deep-learning medical imaging analytics company, and Scottish digital transformation consultancy Storm ID were chosen to co-develop new AI-based osteoporosis prevention solutions under EUREKA intergovernmental network.
- The UK-Israel research and development grant will be
co-developed with clinical teams from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Assuta
Medical Centers in Israel.
Scottish digital transformation
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